(Chipas) Fine brown seed. The main component of the specimen consists of seeds and fruit fragments of Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl, flixweed, Brassicaceae. Native to Eurasia. Note: Some fruits more than 1 mm wide having more than 12 seeds. Identification based on treatment in Hickman, J. C.,1993, The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, University of California Press. Other items found and placed in gelatin capsules: 12 Fruits of Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik., shepherd’s-purse, Brassicaceae; 9 Florets of Bromus cf. hordeaceus L., soft chess, Poaceae; 4 Fruits of Polygonum cf. aviculare L., prostrate knotweed, Polygonaceae
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Klamath Reservation, Klamath County, Oregon
Culture or time period:
Klamath Lake and Modoc
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Used as food when parched and ground.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
These seeds were sampled and sent to the Department of Food and Agriculture for identification by Kat Anderson and others in her lab. She is the ethnoecologist at the National Plant Data Center, Natural Resources Conservation Service at the University of California. The seeds were returned in December of 2009.
Loans:
S2008-2009 #11: Seed Lab, Plant Pest Diagnostics Center (CA Dept. of Food and Agriculture)/Department of Agriculture, UC Davis (April 6, 2009–December 1, 2009)